The company is based in Israel and Bahat spoke in an interview on the eve of the launch of the Mobile World Congress here.

Because of the political environment in the U.S. over the net neutrality debate, she said that major U.S. carriers are sensitive to making waves and provoking customer anger. "Americans would scream too loudly" if throttling was started, she predicted.

The U.S. has more wireless competition than most other nations with four major carriers who want to keep their customers rather than lost them to competitors, she added.

She noted that some wireless carriers in other countries, including Spain and Russia, are currently throttling wireless data networks. She didn't name those carriers.

Part of Bahat's prediction for Verizon is based on how the carrier is already deploying Flash Networks' optimization software to monitor and improve wireless cellular traffic. The software uses complex compression algorithms and other techniques to reduce network traffic by up to 40%, she claimed.